Raspberry Pi Weekly Newsletter - Monday, March 30, 2015

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Top new questions this week: How to debug without "Program received signal SIGILL" using the 3.18 kernel (3.12 works)? I tried to debug a program with gdb in Raspbian, but all I get is: Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. 0xb6fe8acc in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 It doesn't help to set the ... raspbian c++ debug   asked by someonr 3 votes Delay between bytes using py-spidev for SPI communication on Raspberry Pi I am attempting to read/transfer data between an instrument and Raspberry pi 2, using the RPi as the Master and instrument as the slave. The data sheet states I must have a 9 ms delay between sending ... hardware spi   asked by David Hagan 2 votes answered by Dave Tweed 2 votes How do I read a car turn indicator is on using GPIO I am brand new to the Raspberry Pi (PM now born-again developer, Pi still in the box etc) and this is my very first ever post so please don't slam me if I use the wrong protocol to ask this question. ... gpio analog-to-digital   asked by Mal Snaize 2 votes answered by portforwardpodcast 2 votes No input after ssh login When I login the first time after a reboot per ssh into my pi2, I can type into the terminal. But after some logins as you can see in the image below, I can't type into the terminal. What can cause ... raspbian ssh   asked by shebang 2 votes answered by jotadepicas 0 votes Resetting I2C? Or did I break my chip? I'm connecting a TS45315 light sensor on an Adafruit breakoutboard to the I2C bus of my Raspberry. I access the data through the following simple Python script: ... hardware i2c sensor   asked by Andreas Gohr 2 votes answered by joan 1 vote Do I need a current limiting resistor in series with a magnetic door sensor? I'm building an alarm system and I'm using a magnetic door sensor, conected to ground and a pin of the gpio set up with an internal pull-up resistor. As far as I know, this means that the pin will be ... gpio sensor electronics   asked by jotadepicas 2 votes answered by goldilocks 2 votes What software do I need for Raspberry PI 2? I'm awaiting delivery of RaspBerry PI2 and have created an SD card with Noobs by extracting : Version:1.4.0 Release date:2015-02-18 from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ So top level SD card ... raspbian   asked by blue-sky 2 votes answered by Joseph 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Transmission: permission denied on USB disk I have Raspberry Pi running RaspBMC with a WD MyBook connected using USB. The drive is automatically mounted to /media/My Book. I have created a folder /media/My Book/downloads and I have set ... raspbmc hard-drive storage   asked by Igor Kulman 10 votes answered by Igor Kulman 7 votes How can I prevent my Pi's SD card from getting corrupted so often? I get an I/O error at boot and then get this 'error': (I am running the latest version of Raspbian) Entering kdb (current=0xca82ac80, pid 1) due to keyboard entry kdb> _ And I have seen it ... raspbian sd-card boot-issues   asked by coding_corgi 21 votes answered by lenik 23 votes Can you answer these? RPi A+ and Pi noIR: How to update just the camera driver NOT OS I have a SD card, with Raspbian and lots of programs installed on it. I want to run it on model A+ and use the pi noIR camera module. The problem is that the OS firmware version is quite old. I know ... raspbian camera update rpi-update   asked by Saeed Vrz 1 vote Trouble running Pi NoIR camera board at documented speeds The Pi camera board is described as running HD video at 30fps or 0.033spf. I'm using the picamera python module (the only API I could find) and trying to implement the client example. At less than ... performance camera-board   asked by twinlakes 1 vote PiTFT: Cause terminal blanking to disable screen backlight, let touchscreen wake terminal I have a raspberry pi model B rev 2, with the Adafruit PiTFT 2.8" w/ touchscreen. I'm running the standard raspbian install, after following the instructions on this page. What I want to do is set up ... touchscreen cli pitft   asked by crh23 2 votes

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